Mourinho: No pressure

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho Madrid - Arabstoday Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho insists there is no pressure on his team in Tuesday's first leg of the Champions League semi-final at Bayern Munich. The nine-times winners lost at the last 16 stage for six seasons in a row prior to Mourinho's reign, but have reached successive semi-finals under him. "We have nothing to lose," Mourinho said. "The only thing we can lose this year is the King's Cup, which is ours. "La Liga and the Champions League are not ours, so we can only win them." Real have lost only one of their last 22 Champions League encounters, the first-leg of last season's semi-final with Barcelona, and Mourinho refers to that bad-tempered 2-0 defeat as "a game which has a story". Regarding his line-up for Tuesday's match in Munich he said: "I have no doubts, I know who is playing, who is going to be on the bench and who will be in the stands, it's one of the games in which I don't have any doubt. "I have thought so much about it and worked so hard for it that I have absolutely no doubt, it's an easy decision." The former Chelsea boss was dismissive of his team equalling the Real Madrid club record of 107 goals in a season, a feat they achieved at the weekend. "They are numbers which have no meaning," he said. "They are historic numbers and history does not count tomorrow." FAST FACTS Meanwhile, Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes says the players should be driven by the prospect of competing in the Champions League final on home soil at the Allianz Arena. "It is certainly a very special motivation that the final takes place in the Allianz Arena," he said. "This is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity." Heynckes led Real to glory in the 1998 Champions League and spent eight years coaching in Spain. And he is deeply impressed by how Mourinho's men have established a four-point lead over defending league and European champions Barcelona in La Liga this season. "Of course I know Real Madrid very well, but I have got to say they are even more dangerous and effective this season," he said. "Spanish football is currently leading the way at the moment. Barcelona are defining a new era. "It is going to be an interesting match between two sides with a great tradition - between two of the best sides in Europe."